2010/2/6 Thiago Macieira <[email protected]>: > Em Sábado 6. Fevereiro 2010, às 23.16.25, Ingo Klöcker escreveu: >> On Saturday 06 February 2010, Patrick J. Volkerding wrote: >> > Please don't ruin KDE. Having a reasonable number of source tarballs >> > is one of KDE's greatest strengths. It's nice to see a project of >> > KDE's complexity that can be compiled by a technically-inclined end >> > user, and not only by the project's developers (or people who are >> > nearly so). >> >> The number of tarballs we provide is largely unrelated to the number of >> Git repos we split KDE SVN into. We can easily put the content of >> several Git repos into one larger tarball. So for distros using tarballs >> (i.e. all binary distros AFAIK) nothing has to change. But the distros >> could choose to use the smaller per Git repo tarballs which we should >> also provide. That's up to the distro to decide. > > No, we can't do that. > > The moment that we start splitting the repositories, the CMakeLists.txt files > will start to drift. It will be impossible to do in-module and out-of-module > builds with the same source code.
It's possible, but it is a pain to maintain. This was the situation that Amarok 2 was in for its years in extragear/multimedia SVN. We basically only supported checking out Amarok by itself, but the ten people who built it from multimedia would be annoyed whenever we broke things for them. Ian _______________________________________________ Kde-scm-interest mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-scm-interest
